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Many people contemplating conflict-of-interest scenarios involving California clients and their attorneys often focus upon a few core considerations. Here's a classic conflict situation that often plays out in reality many times a year in California and elsewhere...
We have spoken before in this blog about statutes of limitations, and how an incompetent attorney can torpedo your legitimate claim by failing to file your lawsuit in time. In today’s post, we will discuss when the clock starts ticking on most personal injury...
Everyone who hires an attorney in Los Angeles has the right to get adequate representation from that attorney. This is true whether you hired the attorney yourself, or are an indigent criminal defendant who received a court-appointed defense attorney. Whether or not...
Breach of confidentiality often plays a key role in legal malpractice claims. In a recent post, we discussed the link between violations of attorney-client confidentiality and legal malpractice. Today, we explore how another sort of confidentiality worked against a...
A recent litigation matter in another state is representative of the type of attorney malpractice cases that arise with some frequency in Los Angeles and elsewhere throughout Southern California. We pass along its relevant details to our readers, given its interest...
By the nature of the job, attorneys often have access to their clients’ personal information. To get the best representation possible, clients often have to tell their lawyer things they cannot tell anybody else. One way the law encourages total honesty between...
When choosing an attorney to handle their legal matter, many people in California want to know whether their prospective attorney has legal malpractice insurance. State law requires that lawyers disclose whether they have malpractice insurance, but they are not...
Nobody wants to go through the distressing and expensive experience of being represented by an incompetent or outright crooked attorney. Most attorneys are honest and hardworking, but sometimes people find themselves the victim of legal malpractice. They get torpedoed...
There are a great many deadlines in legal matters. One of the very important deadlines that can be present when it comes to legal cases are statutes of limitations. Generally, the state's civil statutes of limitations put time limits on how long after an incident...
Most of us in Los Angeles try to be ethical at all times, even if we do not have an official list of ethics to follow. Many professions do have rules of ethics, including attorneys. State bar associations require their members to abide by several rules of ethics....